Missing Victor Pellerin (2006)

Original title

Rechercher Victor Pellerin

Directed by

Sophie Deraspe

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Real figures from Montreal's art scene play fictional versions of themselves. They investigate the disappearance of a painter who burned all his work in 1990. A gallery show in 2005 features artists influenced by him.

playfulinventivequirkycasualslow-burncontemplativemysteriousmockumentary-style

What happens

Missing Victor Pellerin (French: Rechercher Victor Pellerin) is a Canadian mockumentary film directed by Sophie Deraspe and released in 2016. The film centres on the mystery of Victor Pellerin, a visual artist from Montreal who burned all of his art and disappeared in 1990, on the occasion of a 2005 gallery show exhibiting artwork by other figures who had been influenced by him. The cast consists principally of real figures in Montreal's arts scene playing fictionalized versions of themselves, including Eudore Belzile, Élisabeth Legrand, Anne Lebeau, Éric Devlin, Olga Korper, Julien Poulin, Alain Lacoursière, Mathieu Beauséjour, Sheila Ribeiro, Sylvain Bouthillette, Maria-Luisa Fernandes, Plastik Patrick and Jean-Frédéric Messier. The film premiered at the 2006 Festival du nouveau cinéma, where it received a special mention from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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